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791 Profession
should control PCT budget for pharmacy Penalising primary
care trusts for failing to listen to pharmacists and allowing the profession
to take over control of community pharmacy budgets were some of the radical
suggestions made to health minister Rosie Winterton about the future
of the profession this week ...more
791 Agenda
for Change will alter promotion route Agenda for Change (AfC)
is likely to lead to a change in how long staff will work at a grade
before moving up to the next grade, according to Tony West, president
of the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists ...more
791 New
Society policy on prescription charges Abolition or major
reform of the current system of prescription charges and exemptions could
destablise community pharmacy and general practice, according to Eileen
Neilson, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's head of policy development
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791 MPs
to investigate industry's influence MPs are putting the regulation of drug safety under the spotlight as part of a major parliamentary inquiry into “The influence of the pharmaceutical industry.” The House of Commons health select committee, chaired by Labour MP David Hinchliffe, is to look at the present regulatory system of drug safety and efficacy as part of an inquiry announced last week
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792 Pharmacogenetics
research funding announced Details of six pharmacogenetic research projects that will share £4m of funding were announced by health minister Lord Warner this week. The cash allocation is part of the £50m government strategy revealed last year in its genetics White Paper “Our inheritance, our future — realising the potential of genetics in the NHS”
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792 Genetic
variation affects statin efficacy Genetic variation may affect
a patient's response to statins, new research suggests ...more
792 First
community pharmacy gains local accreditation in Hull The first
community pharmacy in East Riding and Hull to gain accreditation through
a primary care trust-funded scheme was announced this week ...more
792 Nottingham
based company wins US technology award Pharmaceutical Profiles, a spin-off company from Nottingham University's school of pharmacy, has been awarded the 2004 Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Technology Award in the field of drug discovery and development. The company won the American award for its work on new technologies in early phase drug development
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793 GP
fears put electronic records plan in jeopardy Plans to introduce
a national electronic patient care record are in jeopardy after GPs declared
they have no confidence that it will improve patient care and warned
they will boycott the initiative unless the Government addresses their
concerns ...more
793 NHS
starts buying generic medicines under national contracts Changes
to the process by which certain generic medicines are procured for NHS
hospitals in England are under way, according to Howard Stokoe, principal
pharmacist, NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency. But many of the main stakeholders,
including generics suppliers, organisations charged with managing the
supply of generic drugs (eg, the Pharmaceutical Market Support Group)
and procurement pharmacists, have some misgivings about the new set-up
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793 Data
fail to show benefit for Echinacea purpurea in colds Another
study has failed to find evidence that Echinacea purpurea effectively
reduces the symptoms and duration of the common cold ...more
793 Most
child poisonings involve medicines Child Safety Week, which
ends on 27 June, has brought a reminder from the Child Accident Prevention
Trust (CAPT) that seven out of every 10 children admitted to hospital
with suspected poisoning have swallowed medicines ...more
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794 Preregistration
trainee loses unfair dismissal case Preregistration training
is a matter for employment law and the training requirements, as set
out in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Byelaws, do not form part of
the employment contract, an industrial tribunal has ruled ...more
794 NICE to examine
drug misuse treatments Clinical guidelines on the treatment
of drug misusers, and assessments of methadone and buprenorphine as opiate
substitutes, and the use of naltrexone to prevent relapse are to be produced
by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence ...more
794 Get more
involved with primary care trusts, says AAH Pharmacists should
be more pro-active in gaining a voice within primary care trusts, according
to Steve Dunn, group managing director of AAH Pharmaceuticals ...more
794 GSK to publish
trial results online GlaxoSmithKline is developing an electronic
database of its clinical trial protocols and results ...more
794 Electronic
SOP toolkit An electronic toolkit for writing standard operating
procedures (SOPs) has been launched by the National Pharmaceutical Association
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794 NPA discussion
forum Six manufacturers — AstraZeneca, Goldshield, GSK
Consumer Healthcare, Novartis, Pfizer and Wyeth — have joined Matrix,
the National Pharmaceutical Association's discussion forum and support
service for stakeholders within the medicines supply chain ...more
795 Smokers die
10 years earlier than non-smokers Cigarette smokers tend to
die about 10 years earlier than non-smokers, although quitting at any
age reduces the risk of mortality. These findings come from the end of
a 50-year seminal study on mortality and smoking in over 34,000 male
doctors born between 1900 and 1930 ...more
795 Recommendations
and cautions for desmopressin New guidelines issued this week
recommend desmopressin as one option for treating bedwetting in children
over six years. But in separate advice the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
says the drug can be difficult to use, with enuresis often returning
when it is stopped ...more
795 Antiretroviral
therapy is safe and effective from infancy New data provide
further evidence of the safety and efficacy of antiretroviral therapy
when started in infancy ...more
795 “Next
generation” atypical antipsychotic launched A new atypical
antipsychotic for the treatment of adults with schizophrenia was launched
this week ...more
796 Non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma drug effective in rheumatoid arthritis A randomised
controlled trial in 161 patients with longstanding rheumatoid arthritis
has shown that giving two intravenous infusions of the monoclonal antibody
rituximab, leads to symptom reduction ...more
796 Quetiapine
reduces anxiety Symptoms of anxiety in patients with bipolar
depression may be relieved by quetiapine (Seroquel) ...more
796 Herbal interaction
with warfarin A survey of 1,360 patients treated with warfarin
has revealed that 8.8 per cent were taking one or more herbal remedy
thought to interact with the anticoagulant ...more
796 Familial
breast cancer guidance Guidance on how health care professionals
should identify and care for woman at risk of developing breast cancer
because of a family history of the condition has been published by the
National Institute for Clinical Excellence and the National Collaborating
Centre for Primary Care ...more
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